-: Oh, it's never boring.
Never, ever, ever, ever, ever boring.
There is something new every day, I am constantly busy.
As the only recruiter for the city, I get to find out
about everything that's going on, which is kind of nice.
I understand how the city works
a lot better than I did before I started,
and all of the really cool things that we're doing
in the city that aren't necessarily visible to the outside.
It's a pretty innovative organization, which you don't
necessarily think of government as innovative.
But, for example, we're one of 100 resilient cities
in the world, one of 27 in North America,
and that's a cutting-edge thing that the city is doing.
Even private businesses aren't necessarily completely there.
So we're really pushing forward with things like that,
and I mean, that's just one example of thousands.
One of our largest challenges in the city
is that we are a heavily union organization.
We're about 92% union.
We have 24 collective bargaining agreements
that govern our hiring, and then for non-union positions,
we have civil service rules that govern the hiring process
to make sure that it's merit-based and competitive
and free of nepotism and cronyism
and all the isms that you don't want in a hiring process.
What that means is it's different for each union,
it's different for each position.
It can be a little bit difficult to navigate
and because of it, it goes much more slowly
than the private sector, which can be very frustrating.
For example, I can't interview people today
and hire them on the spot, I wish I could.
We average about 55 days time to fill
from the time that a position closes
to the time that somebody starts with the city,
so it's a much longer process than the private sector.